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OKay, quick question.

Make a windows forms app, in C#. Add a ToolStrip, in the tool strip create a textbox. Now here is the problem. Put the breakpoint on the event KeyPress or any other key event.

Run it, Press Escape key. No event is triggered.



Now the Escape key remove the focus from the textbox (you dont see the cursor inside the box). But no event is triggered for KeyChar 27 or Keys.Escpae. Why? Is this a bug?

   Hi guys,

any one tried to make an Msn messenger 8 addin? I had some time yesterday and I started playing with it. I made a personalmessage scroller tied to a timer. it works, but only for 1 cycle. then it stops. I dont know why. maybe its server end problem?

Anyways. There are missing API's that are much needed.

1) I want to see an api that allow me to enumerate all my list (if i want to make a global message to all my friendns in my list)

2) I want an api that allows me to know if my Window is opened. So if someone opens my window (dbl click on my name) I want an event that gets trigered so I can say " Hi greetings or something like that"

3) Important. There is the initilizer code of the addin, but I want an event that allows me to control how the addin is started. So when Messenger's "Turn On 'my addin'"  is checked I get an even in code and I then do what ever. So tie the checked event with an event that gets triggered in the Addin object. Add-in_Activated, Add-in_Deactivated.

3) Allow messenger , when I remove the add in, to remove the dll from memory (unload it) so when I do a rebuild I dont have to restart messenger again.

4) Add APi that allows you to edit the font properties of the treeview items so we can change font and things like that. (this should be global in messenger, but that is for later builds I suppose as the Mesenger team sees fit). A display name color would be cool.

5) API that allow you to detect as an event a change in PersonalMessage and Friendly name changes (Event to signal a change in the display name or display picture or personal message)

6) A way to block and unblock contacts in code. also remove or add contacts in code.

7) I cant really really debug my add-in. I get an error message when I attach debugger to messenger. How to debug my add-in in an easy way using VS2005?

I will add more later, but for the PersonalMessage Scroller add-in , it works for 1 cycle and then stops as if its not listening for the timer elapsed event. Maybe its some bug I overlooked but I will review that later.


Thanks.

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Maybe there is another life-form out there and we dont know about them "yet". They maybe watching us. Mostly they live in a building called the NSA.

How does this CORE Duo 2 affect Cryptography and decryption using factorization? Does it cut the time to do a big factorization? Would it render some cryptosystems useless?

I say that Intel needs to find a new archetecture to remove the shared FSB because its the limiting factor now. Having said that, would Clock speed matter in the Dual core market? or now because 2 cores you get faster performance and not need that much clock speed?

Sven Groot wrote:



Shark_M wrote: I thought Core Duo support 64 bit software but are 2 32 bit cores.

That's not possible. Two 32 bit cores do not make a 64 bit one. To be able to run 64 bit software, both cores must be 64 bit.

so how can Windows XP 64 bit run in Core duo with clock speed of 2.16 Ghz. I was told this by the local shop dealer that sells Dell and Intel based PCs.  He was an intel representative also.


But where does it acually say that Core 2 is 64-bit on both cores?

alwaysmc2 wrote:



W3bbo wrote:  alwaysmc2 wrote: Wait... isn't this chip basically a Pentium D without the 64 bit compatability? No, it's a totally new design: "Intel Core" which replaces the NetBurst archictecure used since 2000.

How confusing.  Intel® Core™2 Duo processors are 64, but Intel® Core™ Duo processors aren't.

I dont see where it says that. I thought Core Duo support 64 bit software but are 2 32 bit cores. Is it true that Core 2 is 64 bit on both cores?

incidently, Can core 2 fit into P4 motherboards without problems with bios and stuff?



are we going to see Duality in other chips too, like graphics cards and sound cards and motherboard chips to increase performance?



is the clock speed important here? Why is a P4 with 3 GHz speed faster than a Dual core 2 with 2.66 Ghz speed?



I would still go with AMD because in the tuture the bottle neck in INtel's processor is the Front Side Bus, they have to re-design this to not be shared some how.

Unfortunately, the FSB might prove to be the weak link in the future, as it is a shared bus infrastructure, unlike AMD's HyperTransport.